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Pompe disease presenting as an isolated generalized dilative arteriopathy with repeated brain and kidney infarcts

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  1. Département de Neurologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Hôpital de Hautepierre, 67098, Strasbourg, France

    Véronique Quenardelle, Marc Bataillard, Valérie Wolff & Andoni Echaniz-Laguna

  2. Département de Néphrologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, 67091, Strasbourg, France

    Dorothée Bazin

  3. Département de Pathologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, 67098, Strasbourg, France

    Béatrice Lannes

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Quenardelle, V., Bataillard, M., Bazin, D. et al. Pompe disease presenting as an isolated generalized dilative arteriopathy with repeated brain and kidney infarcts. J Neurol 262, 473–475 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-014-7582-6

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